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Little Falls Canal Western Inland Lock & Navigation Company |
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The Little Falls Canal, completed in 1795, predated the original Erie Canal by some 30 years. It was only about a mile long and it's 5 locks lifted boats some 40 feet, around a set of shallow rapids. The original lock walls were built of wooden timbers and were replaced in 1803 with stone construction.
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Seen here is the last surviving fragment of the canal, a guard lock built of local stone.
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Another view of the last canal fragment, wedged between a railroad and a local street.
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When the Erie Canal was built, the Little Falls Canal was retained as a feeder canal and an aqueduct was built to carry boats to Little Falls, and water back to the Erie. Seen here is a bit of the original curve of the bottom of an arch, together with some backfill. This small pile is all that remains of that aqueduct.
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